“The meaning of this stroll is to show that we didn’t like the way authorities treated us in the first days of Putin’s presidential term […] If that was the face of a new Putin we’ve been promised — we don’t want this. He can either change his ways or we will stay on the streets.”
Grigory Chkhartishvili, known by pen name Boris Akunin, quoted by The Associated Press, via The Washington Post (Washington, D.C., USA), May 13, 2012.
She described the government’s moves to restart two idled reactors at Kansai Electric Power Co.’s Oi nuclear power plant after the Fukushima nuclear crisis as “scary.” “I think they are acting strangely,” she said.
Story about Jakucho Setouchi in The Mainichi (Tokyo, Japan), May 2, 2012.
I guess some of this mad right-wing love comes from the idea that in America, anyone can become a Rich Guy if he just works hard and saves his pennies. Mitt Romney has said, in effect, “I’m rich and I don’t apologize for it.” Nobody wants you to, Mitt. What some of us want—those who aren’t blinded by a lot of bullshit persiflage thrown up to mask the idea that rich folks want to keep their damn money—is for you to acknowledge that you couldn’t have made it in America without America.
Stephen King, The Daily Beast (USA), April 30, 2012.
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